On the surface she is a superwoman, but even a Hollywood mom is vulnerable. In an exclusive interview with Mama, Angelina Jolie tells about life as a single parent, the divorce of Brad Pitt, about the operations and about having a heart bleeding for a burning world.

It’s easy to believe that Angelina Jolie is a super woman. She is one of Hollywood’s best-paid actors, she has a flourishing career as a producer, scriptwriter and director and she puts both the strength and the money to make the world a better place. In addition, she is a mother of no less than six (!) Children.

But everything is not as perfect as it looks on the surface, she tells when Mama’s Tina Jøhnk Christensen meets her during the filming of the Disney film “Maleficent 2” in London. Even a superwoman puzzles and struggles to make life go together.

“I do not think it’s easy for any woman to catch up with both family, work and herself. The most important thing for me has been to try to prioritize. At the top of the list are the children always. Their happiness and health are always the most important. I try to build their self-esteem so that they become six strong individuals, who are humble and thoughtful at the same time.

Today, Angelina is single mother to the six children – Maddox, 17, Pax, 14, Zahara, 13, Shiloh, 12, and the twins Vivienne and Knox, 10 – after divorce from actor Brad Pitt. The children live most of the time with her.

In September 2016, the couple separated after twelve years, “to save family well-being”. Pitt later acknowledged that he had alcohol problems. Angelina has never talked publicly about what happened before the divorce, and she does it anyway now too. When her mom meets her, she says it’s not fun to be single – “there’s nothing positive about it at all” – but there are no options right now.

“I took leave for six months to be with my family when they needed me the most. I realize how privileged I am. Not many women can take a break from work when the rest of their lives are in crisis. I often think of other women who go through the same thing with poorer conditions and less support.

The children support each other after the divorce
For her mom, she tells her how impressed she is about how the children reacted to the divorce. Since Pitt left the family, Angelina and the children have come closer than ever before.

– The kids have been absolutely amazing! They have been there for each other in a way that I have never seen before. It’s so touching to see how much they’ve helped each other, how they’ve agreed unitedly. The Great Brothers have supported the smaller ones, and all six have supported me.

Certainly she needs support.
“I may look tough at work, but I’m just as vulnerable as any mom. I’m terrified that something will happen to my children and will be weak in my knees at the smallest cycling quiz. My family means everything to me, and if I did not have them or anything happened to them … It would crush me totally, Angelina said in an earlier interview with the undersigned.

Adopted her first child 2001
Angelina is best known as actor, but many of the roles she now associates with her has nothing to do with her profession. The film “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” made her not only an international superstar 2001 – it also opened her eyes to all the suffering in the world. The film was recorded in Cambodia, a country affected by severe poverty after a long and bloody civil war. Perhaps that was the glow of Angelina’s great mother’s heart. The year after the film premier, she went back to Cambodia to volunteer – but also to become mom for the first time. Returning to the United States, she had seven months old Maddox – her first adoptive child.

17 years and another five children later – three biological and as many adopted – Angelina’s heart is still as strong for all the injustices of the world. She has continued to work as the UN agency UNHCR’s missionary and has visited many affected countries, often with the children. Above all, 12-year-old Shiloh has shown great interest in her mother’s humanitarian work. For Angelina, it’s important to show the children how the world looks like them – especially for children who suffer.

“My children know that I’m fighting for children’s rights and they’ve all traveled with me when I’ve visited war tribunals around the world. I hope I manage to give them a strong sense of right and wrong, and that they can make active choices based on that feeling. I want to show that there are lots of things you can do to help others, says Angelina in an earlier interview.

Make travel to war-hardened countries
Actually, it’s actually quite simple, Angelina says when her mom meets her – if everyone just lives on the same rule.

“I and the children talk a lot about the fact that the essence of everything we do always has to be kindness. If they are only kind to others and at the same time have a good self-esteem, I hope they are able to live their lives with the right focus.

One day recording for a mega production in Hollywood, the next mine in a country destroyed by war or natural disasters. It’s a big throw and big contrasts, but maybe that’s why Angelina devotes so much of her life to helping others – to show herself and her children that everyone has not had as much luck in life as they .

– The stories are so brutal. A young child in Iraqi Mosul told me that she had seen a man be killed in front of her in the street, and a mother and dad described how their teenage daughter had met a garnet wiping away her legs and leaving the broken legpipes stinging out of benstumparna. They carried her to a hospital and prayed and asked for treatment, but were denied and the daughter died in their arms, Jolie wrote in an open letter in the online newspaper Huffington Post.

Since 2017, Angelina, together with former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, now Secretary of State of NATO, has been working on a project aimed at strengthening women’s rights in war zones.

“In the next few years, we will work out a plan for how NATO can protect and support women living in the midst of the war, including by increasing the number of women in the organization and creating strategies for military prevention of sexual violence and other crimes which affects women in conflict areas. At first glance, it appears that the military and humanitarian workers have different agendas when they actually strive for the same goal: peace. One can liberate an area of ​​military, I saw myself in Mosul recently, but if you do not force to build the country after the war, and prepare for how all those who have relocated can return, then peace will not be long-term.

Has moved to new house
For Angelina, the biggest challenge is being mom to make sure that the children find their own joy in life, and a sense of meaning. Its all its own opinion.

“All I want is to engage, wake up every morning with a drive – but also to laugh and live and appreciate life. I want them to know what they want to do with their lives, that they know what they are striving for. Then I think they can handle difficult periods as well. Like the teenager. I have a very small bunch of teenagers at home now, and it can certainly be complicated. Right now, I just hope they will not be as difficult as I was as a teenager. So far, it seems calm, Angelina said in an earlier interview.

Angelina recently bought a villa in LA Los Feliz. The house – built in 1913, with six bedrooms and ten bathrooms – was previously owned by legendary American director Cecil B. DeMille and lost $ 25 million. There is plenty of room for both mom and the big siblings – and Angelina’s new interest in cooking.

– I have begun cooking lessons! I do not know how well I’m at it yet. I am very impatient and maybe a little whimsical and have always been very hard to find peace in the kitchen, but I’m really trying. And I have noticed that if I cook food, the children hang with me in the kitchen. Often they end up taking over the pots. Honestly they are better at cooking than me. A tip to all mothers: Say you can not cook, so the kids learn to do it instead. I usually cheat that it was my plan all the time.

In the name of honesty, however, it is the opposite, she says:

– When you have six children, you realize you’re not the boss of anything at all right …

Angelina removed both breasts
Almost five years ago, Angelina underwent a large procedure where she chose to remove both breasts and replace them with implants. Two years later, she was re-entered, this time to remove both her ovaries and ovaries.

Angelina has lost both her mother, grandmother and aunt in women-related cancer, and after finding that she was wearing the BRCA1 gene, with a 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, Angelina wanted to better safe than sorry. The latest surgery meant that she ended up in menopause, but in an interview with Vanity Fair, she told her that she had hardly made her feel less female – rather the opposite.

“I feel even more feminine now. I want other women to know: You can be in menopause or wipe off both breasts and still feel super-feminine.

Today she looks back in recent years with humility. Her work with UNHCR, all trips to poor and war-torn places, has given her perspective on life.

“I always focus on how much worse it actually could be. I’m so lucky not to have cancer, and I’m so happy and grateful to have been operated, which hopefully will prevent the risk of getting sick. And if I’m still suffering sometime in the future, I’ll have shot the cancer and the cancer treatments a couple of years in the future, and it will bring peace to the soul.

Looking forward to more self-time
Once upon a time, Angelina was a bit of a rebel in Hollywood. Today, the young, messy, teenage girl has long been replaced by a completely different person: a mother who lives for her family. But it happens that the rebel is still looking forward, and Angelina tells the mother she’s ready to be a little kind to herself.

“Now that I have survived the infancy, I begin to realize that my own pleasure – my own happiness – has been paused a little. Perhaps I could have a little more real time in the future. It feels like it’s time for it.

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